A broadcaster unsuccessfully attempted to reunite Manchester United legend Roy Keane and former Manchester City star Alfie Haaland ahead of the derby on Sunday afternoon, based on reports. There’s a belief that Keane ended Haaland’s footballing profession after a horrible tackle back in 2001.
In accordance with Samuel Luckhurst, Keane and Haaland were 25 yards apart on the Etihad Stadium but refused to reunite when a broadcaster asked. The pair spent a season together at Nottingham Forest before Keane left for United in a deal price £3.75million, the British record fee at the moment.
Though despite that point together, the 2 hot-headed characters often got here to blows once they stepped on to the pitch against one another. The tip of the iceberg that was their rivalry got here within the 2001 Manchester Derby, when Keane purposefully injured Haaland.
The previous United captain lunged in on the Norwegian and caught him on his right knee, with the ball out of camera shot. Keane was obviously given his marching orders, though he didn’t even catch a glimpse of the red card as he stood over Haaland and shouted on the midfielder as he laid on the bottom in agony.
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Keane later revealed that he intended to harm the midfielder, though denied claims that he intended to finish his profession – provided that it was certainly one of Haaland’s final matches before being forced to retire through injury. Writing in his autobiography in 2002, the previous Republic of Ireland star revealed that Haaland standing over him in 1997 was the explanation for the heavy challenge, when the previous Leeds stair claimed that he was faking an injury.
He said: “I’d waited long enough. I f***ing hit him hard. The ball was there (I feel). Take that you just c****.” Though he then added context to the situation 12 years later, saying: “I did wish to nail him and let him know what was happening. I desired to hurt him and stand over him I don’t regret that. But I had no want to injure him. It was motion; it was football. It was dog eats dog.
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“I’ve kicked a lot of players and I do know the difference between hurting any person and injuring any person. I didn’t go to injure Haaland. While you play sport, you recognize the best way to injure any person.”
Though Haaland doesn’t appear to consider his former team-mate. Speaking in regards to the incident, he said: “For eight years, I wasn’t injured. Coincidence or not, that was my last 90 minutes in England. Is that a coincidence, or isn’t it? “If you happen to’re in the bottom and someone hits you in the appropriate leg, you possibly can still twist your other leg. It might probably get injured and that’s probably what happened. “I haven’t played a full 90 minutes after that incident, that’s the hard fact. And other people can judge whatever they need.”
